Tariq Aziz, the former adviser to Saddam Hussein to death by an Iraqi court sentenced on Tuesday for crimes against members of rival Shiite parties.
The ruling was the latest in a series of criminal proceedings against Mr. Aziz, 74, who as foreign minister and deputy prime minister of the bespectacled face of Saddam Hussein's regime before and during the Persian Gulf War of 1991 , which was caused by the invasion of Kuwait, Iraq, rich in oil.
Since Mr. Hussein rarely left the country because they fear for their safety, Mr. Aziz Iraq represented in the diplomatic world. He surrendered to U.S. forces in 2003, aware that hunting for the majority of officials in Iraq.
In March 2009, Mr. Aziz to 15 years in prison for crimes against humanity and murder, was acquitted earlier this year, accused of ordering the removal of Shiite protesters in 1999 after a Shiite cleric was.
Mr. Aziz lawyers were not immediately available for comment, and it was unclear whether the effect. It is unclear whether the sentence would be carried out. Mr. Aziz lawyers have long argued that it was solely responsible for the diplomatic and political relations in Iraq, and carried out executions and purges relations with Hussein's Baathist government. Hussein, who was ousted as president of a US-led invasion in 2003, was hanged in 2006.